paddock

Yuan Ning entered Zhang Xiuyan's room for the first time.

Zhang Xiuyan's room looks like an adult's, there are no toys, no posters, no records, and none of the things that a teenager should be obsessed with appear in his room.

On the shelf next to the desk are magazines and newspapers that are ordered every month, most of which are related to finance and politics, and there are traces of flipping through them, which shows that Zhang Xiuyan has read them all.The main colors in the room are black and white. It feels a bit old-fashioned, but it is simple and tidy. It looks like someone like Zhang Xiuyan would live there.

Yuan Ning took a few glances, and was soon attracted by a green plant in the corner.It was a wilting mimosa plant, which had grown quite big, but looked very listless, with its head drooping listlessly.Yuan Ning stared at it for a while, and found that its leaves were slightly opened, as if it was also secretly watching him.

Big brother can raise such a plant!

Zhang Xiuyan noticed Yuan Ning's gaze, and his heart throbbed.This thing is really attractive to children!Zhang Xiuyan said, "This is a mimosa."

Yuan Ning was curious: "Why is it called Mimosa?"

"Because when you touch it, its leaves will close." Zhang Xiuyan recalled the habit of mimosa. "When it sleeps at night, it will also close its leaves."

"Brother knows a lot!" Yuan Ning praised sincerely.

"Your fourth brother planted it." Zhang Xiuyan stared down at the listless leaves.Without the person who planted it, it lost its initial spirit.

Yuan Ning was taken aback, feeling that he had done something wrong.He didn't dare to look at Zhang Xiuyan, because Zhang Xiuyan seemed to be surrounded by deep sadness.The dark mass of sadness wrapped Zhang Xiuyan in it, and no one could get close to him.

Yuan Ning squatted down in front of the mimosa, and asked silently: That fourth brother must be a very good person, right?

The mimosa shyly opened its leaves a little wider.It told Yuan Ning: "Yeah, he is very good, his movements are a little clumsy, but he is always careful. When people hear my name, they will touch my leaves curiously, but he said, 'It is afraid of being touched by strangers. !''It always closes its leaves defensively, how sad and tired!' I haven't seen him for a long time, do you know where he went?"

Yuan Ning stared blankly at Mimosa.Before his parents were away, he also loved to talk to flowers and trees, but they never responded to him!

Now not only dogs can talk to him, but mimosa can too?

Yuan Ning told Mimosa about Zhang Xiuming.

Mimosa closed its leaves sadly and cried sadly.

Yuan Ning was at a loss.He said, "Brother, brother is also very sad. You don't seem to be very energetic. Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Mimosa slightly opened its leaves and looked at Yuan Ning.After a while, it stopped crying: "This pot is too small. My roots are all coiled together, which is very uncomfortable, so I can't grow up, and I don't have energy. Can you ask someone to change a pot for me? ? I want to grow up and wait for him to come back."

Yuan Ning breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay!" He was very afraid that he would make the mimosa too sad and withered, and Zhang Xiuyan would definitely be even more sad!

"You are very kind." Mimosa said, "Thank you."

Yuan Ning was a little embarrassed.

He is always unable to help others, and always has to trouble others, so he feels useless.Now the dog thanks him, and the mimosa thanks him, which makes him feel ashamed.He is very timid, and sometimes he dare not even talk to Zhang Xiuyan, let alone Mr. Zhang and the others.

Yuan Ning turned to look at Zhang Xiuyan.

Zhang Xiuyan has suppressed the sadness just now, looking no different from usual, and said seriously: "What about the timetable?"

The eldest brother really couldn't hear Mimosa talking.

Yuan Ning obediently handed the timetable to Zhang Xiuyan.After Zhang Xiuyan had seen it all, Yuan Ning mustered up the courage to say, "Big brother."

Zhang Xiu glanced at him strictly.

Yuan Ning almost swallowed the words.Thinking of the plight of Mimosa, he boldly said: "The pot, the pot is too small."

Zhang Xiuyan didn't know why.

Yuan Ning lied nervously: "I heard people say that when the flowers and plants grow up, the roots will grow bigger, and the original pot is too small. Their roots are all coiled together, which is very uncomfortable."

Yuan Ning's statement made Zhang Xiuyan frown.He's not a child, and he doesn't feel that plants feel "uncomfortable" at all, but the mimosa has indeed not grown taller for a long time, and he is becoming more and more listless. Maybe there is a possibility that Yuan Ning said?

Zhang Xiuyan nodded.He said: "Tomorrow I will take it to the gardening shop to have a look." It just so happened that the garden at home was going to be trimmed, and the gardener who came last time cut my mother's favorite flowerbed too "artistically", which made my mother sad For a long time, he wanted to pick a new one.

Yuan Ning's eyes lit up.The eldest brother is really cold and kind-hearted!

Zhang Xiuyan thought Yuan Ning wanted to go too.He thought for a while and said, "You hold it so that it won't be damaged on the road."

Yuan Ning was surprised and delighted.He wasn't quite sure what Zhang Xiuyan meant: "Can I go too?"

Zhang Xiuyan nodded.

He silently observed Yuan Ning's shining eyes.

Different.

This new brother is also different from the younger brother.

He is more cautious and knows how to hide his emotions, like a poor little rabbit, carefully testing everything around him, even a stone will be regarded as a tiger.It's just that this little stammer is different from Zhang Xiuwen, Zhang Xiuwen also has a fire in his heart, so even though he is not very active on the surface, he still holds back his strength to follow his arrangement in secret.

This little stutter...

Zhang Xiuyan was suddenly a little uncertain.If he is simple, he can bluff people; if he is thoughtful, he is so easy to cheer up—and if he is really a deep-minded child, he will care about a dog, whether a grass is comfortable, whether it is open or not. happy?

Zhang Xiuyan returned the timetable to Yuan Ning: "There is generally no problem, and this period of time will be arranged according to this." He issued an order to evict guests, "Go to bed early, and wake up on time tomorrow. Classes will continue as usual in the morning, and I will take you to gardening in the afternoon." shop."

Yuan Ning nodded obediently, turned her head and said goodbye to Mimosa, trotted back to the room to read a book and went to sleep.

Zhang Xiuyan glanced at the mimosa in the corner.

Zhang Xiuyan hesitated for a moment, turned off the main light, and only turned on the desk lamp by the desk.He imitated Yuan Ning and said to it with a blank face: "You go to bed early too, good night."

Mimosa: ..._(:з」∠)_Can you say good night without a straight face, it’s so scary.

After reading the three fairy tales, Yuan Ning recognized a lot of words. When she looked at the alarm clock, she realized that it was almost nine o'clock. She brushed her teeth and rinsed her mouth in a hurry, changed into her pajamas, lay down on the bed, covered herself with a quilt, and went to sleep.He always slept well and rarely dreamed, but this night was different, he fell into a dream as soon as he fell asleep.He saw the spring in Yupeili again, and the fish in the spring.

Naturally, there is also that terrible black silk thread.

Yuan Ning said happily: "Yu'er, you are finally here again!"

The fish seemed to have heard his voice and swam towards him.Before the fish swam up to Yuan Ning, the black thing entangled towards it again!

Yuan Ning's whole heart tightened in an instant: "Hurry up, fish! It's going to entangle you!"

Wang!

A loud dog barking was heard not far away.

Yuan Ning felt a little familiar, but when he looked up, he found that the surroundings were still pitch black, and he could only see the spring and the fish swimming towards him.

To Yuan Ning's surprise, the black thing seemed to be frightened by the cry, and shrank back, not daring to entangle itself any further.Yu'er swam up to Yuan Ning smoothly, opened and closed his mouth, as if he was saying something, but Yuan Ning couldn't hear it.

Yuan Ning half knelt by the spring, and said to Yu'er in frustration, "I'm sorry, I can't help you."

The fish wagged its tail.

Yuan Ning saw a wound on the fish's tail, as if it had been bitten severely by something.He asked with concern: "It hurts, doesn't it?"

The fish still wags its tail.

Yuan Ning didn't understand what it meant.

The fish kept opening its mouth wide.

Yuan Ning was stunned, thinking that the day Yupei disappeared, his finger seemed to be bitten by a fish.He looked at his ten fingers, not sure which one it was, and after thinking for a while, he stretched out his index finger and put it in the fish's mouth.

The moment the fish bit him, he noticed a little change in his surroundings.The darkness dissipated, revealing the original features around the spring.It turned out that the spring was surrounded by a square pond, and there was a small piece of land beside the pond.It's a pity that both the pond and the soil are very dry, and turtle patterns appear on the ground.

The spring was clearly still gushing out, but it was tightly bound by the black thing, not a single drop of water could leak out.Yuan Ning understood: "This pond is your home, fish!"

Yu'er sucked Yuan Ning's finger to show that he was right.

Yuan Ning said firmly: "I will help you!" But he was still puzzled, "How can I help you, Yuer?"

Wang!

Another barking sound came.

The black silk thread retreated again, but it was still tightly bound around the spring, preventing the spring water from flowing out.

The fish backed away.

The surroundings returned to darkness.

The fish turned around, opened its mouth and bit the black silk thread fiercely.When it bit off a thread, the surrounding black threads frantically rushed towards it, like countless terrifying tentacles.

Yuan Ning was taken aback: "Fish!"

Yuan Ning suddenly opened his eyes.

The sweet sound of the alarm clock sounded in my ears: "Dinglingling~Dinglingring~It's five o'clock in the morning~Please get up on time~Please wake up on time~Dingling~"

Yuan Ning's eyes widened slightly, looking at the white ceiling.He understood that those black silk threads were villains!To get rid of those black silk threads, the fish's home can be restored!In order to get rid of those black silk threads, the fish's tail was injured!

But how could he get rid of that nasty thing?

Yuan Ning thought carefully about everything in the dream.

Those black silk threads seem to be afraid of dogs?

Or, he went to Grandpa Xie's big dog for help?